Best Way to Achieve a Natural Tooth Care

With the advent of natural toothpaste and reverse-osmosis water filters, your smile and toothcare can be as healthy, natural, and chemical-free as the food you eat.

If you’re choosing to go organic because you’re concerned about your health, you may decide to put natural toothcare near the top of your list. Many are made of ingredients that are good enough to eat – which, if you’re putting something in your mouth, makes perfect sense, since some inevitably gets swallowed.

If someone has gum disease (with gums that bleed), that’s a real short-cut for the chemicals in toothpaste to get into your system.

Smile please

In the quest for whiter, brighter smiles, many toothpastes are a long way from pure and natural with extra chemicals” such as fluoride. Many experts claim fluoride helps fight decay, yet it has also been linked, in at least eight American studies, to an increase in bone fractures. It is believed by natural health experts to interfere with the body’s balance of calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc and, in a high enough dose, it is extremely toxic.

In the U.S., toothpastes with sodium fluoride carry a “warning”, and users are advised not to swallow more than the quantity required for brushing, and to keep toothpaste in a secure cabinet out of reach of children under 6.

Toothpaste ingredients

Many regular toothpastes contain preservatives or foaming agents, which are given direct access to the bloodstream via the thin lining of the mouth and gums.

If you would prefer to use a natural toothpaste, look out for toothpaste by The Green People Company, Weleda, Lavera, Logona, Urtekram, and Bioforce.

The conventional view

You might choose to follow a conventional dentist’s advice and use a mainstream fluoride toothpaste. Alternatively, go for a natural toothpaste choice, and take other positive steps to prevent cavities.

Tooth decay can be avoided by cutting out sugar, getting plenty of vitamins, brushing and flossing regularly, and eating calcium-rich foods such as dried peas and beans, canned fish, and dark leafy greens, including beet and turnip tops, and kale.

Something in the water

In many places, it is impossible to avoid fluoride, even by switching toothpaste, because it is actually added to the water supply by the authorities. In the long term, this may turn out to have serious health implications: there is evidence that fluoride causes dental fluorosis (resulting in white flecks on the tooth surface, or even brown mottling), and it may also be linked with a dramatic increase in hip fractures in the elderly.

There is a way around this, however: filtering your drinking water by having a reverse-osmosis water filter installed in your kitchen removes all traces of this potentially harmful chemical from your tap water.